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Oct. 28th, 2007 09:27 pmOkay, so David Sedaris? Was just as amazing as I was expecting him to be. No disappointments here.
It was fantastic and I am so glad that I got to go. It was like an NWPR party there! Those people I've listened to on the radio for what seems like forever? On the stage and in the audience and that was just fun to put faces to voices. Plus, when the lady at the door took our tickets, she asked us if we were interested in closer seats and then sent us to the manager-type-person. So instead of row R, we ended up in row F.
And then David finally came out and I basically started grinning like a fool. He read from several sources (including those not published in the US and his diary) and then there was a short Q&A session. It was two hours of hilarity, basically.
The first short he read was originally supposed to be on This American Life, but "the Powers That Be" decided that it was just a bunch of random things instead of a narrative of any sort and judged that it was pointless or useless or something, so he wrote something else. "If non-stop laughter is pointless."
After that he read some poetry about dogs (though he doesn't own a dog and doesn't really like them) where he rhymed some pretty interesting things with the help of his rhyming dictionary, which apparently "does all the work for you." He then read something from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and a piece from the New Yorker.
The piece from the New Yorker can be found here. His wife stirred to action then, and became almost sociable. “So this boyfriend,” she said. “Let me ask, which one of you is the woman?”
“Well, neither of us,” I told her. “That’s what makes us a homosexual couple. We’re both guys.”
One of my favorite parts of the evening, though, was when he told us about his experience at Yakima's YMCA. He's quit smoking. In order to take his mind off of smoking, he's taken up swimming, because it's an action that doesn't leave him wondering if something missing. "You can't swim and smoke." So they cleared a lane for him to swim laps in and he was fine until a nine year old approached him. They got to talking and he said that he hadn't been swimming for very long so the kid could probably beat him. This prompted the kid to propose a race. Which David won. At the end, the kid told him that it must be because God touched him and sped him up. To which David replied, "Well maybe God grabbed your foot and slowed you down." (I wish that I could say stuff like this when certain people I know say these kinds of things to me.) He then asked the kid where he learned stuff like that. "Church," the kid said. "Which church?" "A Godly one."
And then David grinned and laughed. It was great when he found something he'd noted or written or experienced so funny that he couldn't help but still laugh with us.
Wonderful experience. We didn't stay to have anything signed (I already have a couple of books signed). But today at Target Mom ran into Robin Rilette (!! Who hosts the classical music and saved my sanity while selling peaches this summer.) who said that it was crazy at the signing and took forever. Which makes me think leaving was a good idea. But it only took forever because David talked to everyone. Apparently he had a bag of hotel shampoo and conditioner bottles that he was handing out to people, too. So that makes me think, well gee, maybe we should have stayed. But I wouldn't have known what to say.
No regrets, though.
And I cannot recommend him enough.
It was fantastic and I am so glad that I got to go. It was like an NWPR party there! Those people I've listened to on the radio for what seems like forever? On the stage and in the audience and that was just fun to put faces to voices. Plus, when the lady at the door took our tickets, she asked us if we were interested in closer seats and then sent us to the manager-type-person. So instead of row R, we ended up in row F.
And then David finally came out and I basically started grinning like a fool. He read from several sources (including those not published in the US and his diary) and then there was a short Q&A session. It was two hours of hilarity, basically.
The first short he read was originally supposed to be on This American Life, but "the Powers That Be" decided that it was just a bunch of random things instead of a narrative of any sort and judged that it was pointless or useless or something, so he wrote something else. "If non-stop laughter is pointless."
After that he read some poetry about dogs (though he doesn't own a dog and doesn't really like them) where he rhymed some pretty interesting things with the help of his rhyming dictionary, which apparently "does all the work for you." He then read something from Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim and a piece from the New Yorker.
The piece from the New Yorker can be found here. His wife stirred to action then, and became almost sociable. “So this boyfriend,” she said. “Let me ask, which one of you is the woman?”
“Well, neither of us,” I told her. “That’s what makes us a homosexual couple. We’re both guys.”
One of my favorite parts of the evening, though, was when he told us about his experience at Yakima's YMCA. He's quit smoking. In order to take his mind off of smoking, he's taken up swimming, because it's an action that doesn't leave him wondering if something missing. "You can't swim and smoke." So they cleared a lane for him to swim laps in and he was fine until a nine year old approached him. They got to talking and he said that he hadn't been swimming for very long so the kid could probably beat him. This prompted the kid to propose a race. Which David won. At the end, the kid told him that it must be because God touched him and sped him up. To which David replied, "Well maybe God grabbed your foot and slowed you down." (I wish that I could say stuff like this when certain people I know say these kinds of things to me.) He then asked the kid where he learned stuff like that. "Church," the kid said. "Which church?" "A Godly one."
And then David grinned and laughed. It was great when he found something he'd noted or written or experienced so funny that he couldn't help but still laugh with us.
Wonderful experience. We didn't stay to have anything signed (I already have a couple of books signed). But today at Target Mom ran into Robin Rilette (!! Who hosts the classical music and saved my sanity while selling peaches this summer.) who said that it was crazy at the signing and took forever. Which makes me think leaving was a good idea. But it only took forever because David talked to everyone. Apparently he had a bag of hotel shampoo and conditioner bottles that he was handing out to people, too. So that makes me think, well gee, maybe we should have stayed. But I wouldn't have known what to say.
No regrets, though.
And I cannot recommend him enough.
